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131 lines
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TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something
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is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox,
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or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that I _might_ get
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around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please let me know.
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* login/sulogin/passwd/getty/etc are part of tinylogin, and so are not
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needed or wanted in busybox (or else I'd have to link in libcrypt).
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* Networking apps are probably going to be split out some time soon into a
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separate package (named perhaps tiny-netkit?). This currently includes
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hostid, hostname, mnc, and ping.
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-Erik
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* Allow tar to create archives with sockets, devices, and other special files
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* Make insmod actually work
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* dnsdomainname
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* traceroute/netstat
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* rdate
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* hwclock
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* killall
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* stty
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* tr
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* cut
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* expr (maybe?) (ash builtin?)
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Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox'
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and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller...
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busybox.defs.h is too big and hard to follow.
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I either need to add a better build system (like the Linux kernel?)
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or I need to split up busybox.defs.h into coherent chunks (i.e.
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busybox.defs.h just has a bunch of:
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#include "fileutils.h"
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#include "shellutils.h"
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which would then have smaller sets of #defines...
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Hmm. Needs to be carefully thought out.
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-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 4398 2000-01-06 21:55 uniq.c
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-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 1568 1999-10-20 18:08 update.c
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-rw-r----- 0/1000 1168 2000-01-29 21:03 update.o
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-rw-r--r-- 1000/1000 22820 2000-01-05 11:36 utility.c
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-rw-r----- 0/1000 7372 2000-01-29 21:03 utility.o
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tar: Skipping to next file header
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tar: Skipping to next file header
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tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary
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tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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#1 You are storing by id instead of name like normal tar. Did you realize this?
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(or am I missing some compile option? )ctar did not do this, and I don't think
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it's a good idea for LRP.
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#2
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ctar did not produce the EOF error like your tar does. I believe you need to
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pad the end of the archive with at least 2 tarsized (512byte) blocks. (I
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think???)
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#3
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There is no exclude file(s) option to tar. LRP's packaging system can not
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function without this. Will you have the time to add this soon?
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cd /mnt
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mkdir BACKUP
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mv * BACKUP
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Today, "mv" behaved as a cp -a and my disk becomed full. It does not
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work properly either when renaming a directory into something else
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(it produces a lot of disk activity when doing this).
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Feature request:
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/bin/busybox --install -s which makes all links to commands that it
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can support (an optionnal -s should be used for symbolic links instead
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of hard links).
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> Have you ever thought of doig network logging in busybox syslogd ? It
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> would quite make sense on embedded systems... :)
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So far I had not considered it. Basically, you wish to have
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messages from the embedded box logged to a remote network
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syslog box, right? I can see that this would be useful.
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I'll add this to the TODO list,
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In utility.c:copyFile: It uses followLinks for both source and
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destination files... is that right for `mv'? Will need to revisit
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the GNU, freeBSD, and MINIX versions for this... Should read the
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Unix98 and POSIX specs also.
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I think that the add_inode &c in utility.c needs to also stow the
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st_dev field, and that du.c should NOT call `reset_inode_list'
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because there can be hard links from inside one argv/ to inside
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another argv/. du.c probably ought to have an -x switch like GNU du
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does also...
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